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A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
- Awards
- 19 wins & 16 nominations
Daniele Aldrovandi
- Bonaiuto Sanguinetti
- (as Pietro Daniele Aldrovandi)
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- TriviaSteven Spielberg was intending to direct a version of this story around 2016. He even was looking at casting the young boy's role though open auditions from Jewish Schools in Europe and America. Although he had cast Mark Rylance as Pope Pius IX and Oscar Isaac as the older Edgardo Mortara, Spielberg's inability to find the right child actor led to the project becoming stalled.
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Marco Bellocchio has made some interesting movies in the past like "Fists in the Pockets" and "The Traitor" which I have enjoyed. This movie focuses on the Mortara case and the controversial aspects behind the Catholic Church which are complex yet interesting subjects to learn about. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't really do justice to it's concept and it was underwhelming.
Throughout, the production and costumes are pretty good as they help to capture the environment and time period of the old times. Bellocchio's direction is pretty solid as Bellocchio does offer his talents on showing the themes of political power, religion corruption, and secularism within the historical context. The narrative, unfortunately, does feel as impactful as Bellocchio hoped for as the narrative, while does have some interesting ideas, it felt mostly too standard and too bland that it made the movie pretty difficult to fully connect with emotionally. Around the first 35 minutes of the movie was pretty interesting but then the movie struggles to keep heads up high which creates the narrative further dull.
The performances from the cast members were a mix of good and bad with some of the performances like Barbara Ronchi were good but the others were either bland or pretty wooden as it felt like some kind of poor television movie at times. The child performance wasn't great either. Some of the dialogue moments were pretty bad and the characters weren't interesting which I struggled to fully connect with them.
There are some good soundtrack moments, some of the pacing could improve and some of the editing was pretty bad. There were some serious moments that were meant to be emotional, gut-wrenching and sad but it ended up accidentally being unintentionally hilarious at times. Good atmosphere at least.
Undeniably, Bellocchio is definitely offering some of his talents within this movie but as a whole, it was mostly really mid and not something I would see again from his works.
Throughout, the production and costumes are pretty good as they help to capture the environment and time period of the old times. Bellocchio's direction is pretty solid as Bellocchio does offer his talents on showing the themes of political power, religion corruption, and secularism within the historical context. The narrative, unfortunately, does feel as impactful as Bellocchio hoped for as the narrative, while does have some interesting ideas, it felt mostly too standard and too bland that it made the movie pretty difficult to fully connect with emotionally. Around the first 35 minutes of the movie was pretty interesting but then the movie struggles to keep heads up high which creates the narrative further dull.
The performances from the cast members were a mix of good and bad with some of the performances like Barbara Ronchi were good but the others were either bland or pretty wooden as it felt like some kind of poor television movie at times. The child performance wasn't great either. Some of the dialogue moments were pretty bad and the characters weren't interesting which I struggled to fully connect with them.
There are some good soundtrack moments, some of the pacing could improve and some of the editing was pretty bad. There were some serious moments that were meant to be emotional, gut-wrenching and sad but it ended up accidentally being unintentionally hilarious at times. Good atmosphere at least.
Undeniably, Bellocchio is definitely offering some of his talents within this movie but as a whole, it was mostly really mid and not something I would see again from his works.
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- Oct 13, 2023
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- Also known as
- Kidnapped
- Filming locations
- Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy(views of the cathedral facade)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- €13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $36,459
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,925
- May 26, 2024
- Gross worldwide
- $4,135,644
- Runtime2 hours 14 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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